Often smokers ask how to quit smoking? The
answer is quit by quitting. If you are soft, and if you show the
slightest latitude, you will continue to sail aimlessly in the
rudderless boat. You are unlikely to reach your destination.
Don't complain about lack of assistance. Much of the aids and
material are available to you in the market today to help you in the
process of quitting! These materials will be of use to you only if you
have a strong will power. Any pact is useless unless there is a strong
will power to implement it.
The most amazing thing about the
quality of you the smoker is that you are aware of the fact that you
can't escape punishment for your misdeed. The habit of smoking can turn
into a life-time suffering in the form of severe diseases or death
itself. And yet many smokers have hesitation to quit smoking!
The main problem before you is how to spend the time that you normally spend
in smoking. Those long and short intervals of nicotine pull and push!
Now, you need to fill up these gaps with positive activities. The same needs
to be done in a systematic manner. If you do not organize this activity
properly, there is every chance of you slipping into the nicotine zone
again.
You are caught in the net of nicotine, and it is a
complicated weave. If you escape from one end, you are trapped at the
other end. The situation is somewhat like that. To begin with, try to be
strong at the intellectual level. Read lots of anti-smoking literature.
The
actual process of coming out of the nicotine net is time-consuming and
complicated. Read lots of case studies, regarding the life stories of
the suffering of the smokers.
Visit a cancer ward in a hospital and talk to the patients and the
doctors. This will have a telling impact on your mind. Your
determination to quit smoking will solidify.
Sometimes, simple substitutes work effectively. Buy common cinnamon
sticks. They are comfortable to suck. It has the appearance of the
cigar. Cinnamon is healthy from the point of view of the health of heart.
When the urge to smoke becomes too much, just get up from that place and go
for a brisk walk that will tire you out.
Have a regular schedule
of exercise, meditation and breathing exercises. You have to slowly and
steadily enhance your internal strength.
This time you must
succeed in your stop smoking effort. You are already late, but better
late than never!
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